The tendency towards classification is something strictly connected to the human
nature. Since the ancient times the men have been creating schemes to classify the
reality in order to improve their mnemonic power. The same schemes can be found
in Aristotle’s categories as in Wikipedia and the nowadays computing systems.
Internet itself creates a data structure that is more and more accessible, extensive
and rich of contents. Being fascinated from this mechanism, I started a work that
reuses the list and the catalogue. The use of literary quotations comes, on one side,
from a personal and intimate inspiration which brings the texts of the quoted author
to suggest possible readings of the artwork; on the other side, from the desire of a
more methodical and detached analysis, a chirurgical operation that sections the text,
for example, selecting particular words used by the authors or, as the case of the
artwork titled “Leaves of Books” , the extraction of all the commas from a book. In
the same way the use of nature comes from a perfect romantic-scientific marriage-
break that place itself precisely at the same distance from the emotion and the serial
classification. Taking the example of the lawn used by Italo Calvino to explain this
concept and who says that it is impossible to count a lawn because the lawn, such
as the cosmos, is endless, we realize that the word “endless” brings us immediately
to the romantic dimension of “sublime”, while the enumeration and the taxonomy
remind us algebra and biology.